The Mad Platypus’ Recommended List
Certified by chaos. Selected with care.
Each week, our slightly unhinged,
book-obsessed platypus adds new titles to the list.
Some are brilliant. Some are bizarre. All are worth a read.
Updated every Saturday.
Read at your own risk.
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun
- Demian by Herman Hesse
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
- Frindle by Andrew Clements
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Red Rising Series by Pierce Brown
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